Galip YILMAZ
Doncaster,South Yorkshire
Summary
• I am a highly analytical and technically aware specialist with 3+ years of hands-on experience as an Automation Tester in high-growth organizations managing diverse Software Development and Testing of Web applications.
• I have Manual, Functional, Automation, Front-End, Back-End, RESTful API, Web Service, Regression, Smoke, and Positive/Negative Testing experience in Agile and Scrum settings is required.
• Expert SDET with skills in requirements definition, release management and code debugging.
• Innovative and creative in developing fresh designs to meet current and forecasted needs. Works great with technical and non-technical teams to coordinate on-time, quality releases.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work history
QA Automation Engineer
AQA - SMS Plc
Doncaster
05.2022 - Current
- CRM - Sugar CRM
- FSM
- SBP
- FSI
- DIP
- Empowering QA Professionals with Automation: Teaching and Mentoring
- Testing Tech Stack: WDIO, Cucumber, Postman, Jenkins, TestRail, Jira, JMeter, CRM, Azure DevOps
SDET
CK IT Services Limited / Shaype Bank Project, Lond
London
01.2021 - 01.2022
- • Backend Test
• Frontend Test
• Manual Application Test on Browserstack
• Functional Test
• Exploratory Test
• Smoke Test
• Post Release Checks
• Regression Test
• API Test
• Postman Automation
• I run regular Mobile app testing for iOS and Android - Design and document test cases for the web application and mobile app, with full coverage from user stories and acceptance criteria.
• I ensure the inclusion of testing for both positive and negative scenarios – For this, I play a key role in developing all QA Docs, such as creating Test Plans, Test Scenarios, RTM, Test Case Design, Peer Reviews and Tests - Delivering cost efficiencies by creating and embedding a BDD Automation framework using Selenium WebDriver and
• I conduct daily mobile app testing for iOS and Android devices for the application using Browserstack.
• I ensure functionality by planning, designing, executing, and evaluating performance tests of web applications and services and ensure optimal application performance using Load Runner - Generate automated scripts using QTP, documented, create and maintain functional & regression test suites.
• I configure Selenium Web Driver, TestNG, and Maven tool and created Selenium automation scripts in JAVASCRIPT.
• Testing prior to next quarter's release
• I create and maintain automated test scripts for API testing.
• I perform Functional, System, Exploratory and Regression Testing on web and mobile applications at various phases of the Project life Cycle.
• HTML IDs and XPATH in Selenium WebDriver
• During the Sprint review and demo I regularly demonstrate QA test cases and test results that I conduct.
• Together with other QAs I evaluate functionality and performance of existing software to best target new releases.
AQA - Overtech Information Technologies
Istanbul
07.2019 - 11.2020
- Projects;
- Multi Travel
- Testing Tech Stack: Rest Assured, Cucumber, JUnit/TestNG, Postman, JDBC, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL
Manuel Tester
APPLUASE Pennsylvania / USA, Oréal
07.2017 - 06.2019
- Projects;
- Digicel Financial
- Netas
- L', Nike
- Tonies Box
- John Lewis
Jet Pilot, NATO Staff Officer and Test Pilot
Eskisehir/Turkish Air Force
08.2010 - 04.2017
- Planned and employed pre-planned maintenance, repairs, and hot fixes regarding 9-years by directing aircraft maintenance teams
- Contributed to assisting the battalion in examining aircraft performance testing in adherence with national military standards and guidelines
- Observed and aligned checklist-based behaviours of the aircraft
- Trained more than 10 pilots
- Headed a team of different military mindsets and traditions to achieve the best collaborative teamwork and monitor all single steps.
Education
Flight Safety and Test Flight Course -
Turkish Air Force Flight Training School
2010
BS - Industrial Engineering
Turkish Air Force Academy
2008
Skills
- Highly analytical and technically savvy professional with 3 hands-on experience overseeing multifaceted Software Development and Testing of Web applications as an Automation Tester within high-growth organizations
- Over 6 years of experience in checklist-based and explanatory functional Testing of several Avionics Systems Software as a pilot in test in the Air Force
- Productive qualification as a Manuel Tester with 2 years of experience
- Sound knowledge of Manual, Functional, Automation, Front- End, Back-End, RESTful API, Web Service, Regression, Smoke, and Positive/Negative Testing within Agile and Scrum environments
- Sound knowledge of Manuel Mobile Testing
- Skilled troubleshooter focused on identifying, isolating, and resolving technical issues
- Proficient in Behavioral-Driven Development (BDD), Hybrid Framework, Data-Driven Testing (DDT), Page Object Model (POM), CI/CD production pipeline, STLC, and SDLC
- Articulate communicator fluently speaks the language of both people and technology, blending technical expertise with interpersonal skills, while interacting with all levels of management and stakeholders
Accomplishments
- Software Testing & Development Lifecycle / Test Management / IT Tools & Technologies Risk Assessment & Mitigation / Complex Problem Resolution / Test Cases & Scenarios
- Technical Proficiencies
- Software Testing:
- Selenium, Cucumber, Rest Assured, Postman Test, TestNG, JUnit, Selenium
- Grid, Gherkin, TestFlight
- Frameworks:
- Page Object Model (POM), Cucumber Behavior-Driven Development (BDD)
- Data-Driven, WDIO
- Programming Languages
- Java, Python, JavaScript
- Database:
- Oracle Database, MySQL, PostgreSQL
- Testing Methods:
- Functional, Regression, Smoke, E2E, Manuel Mobile Test
- Build Management Tool:
- Maven
- Tools: Jira, X-Ray, Postman, Swagger, Test Rail, JMeter
- CI/CD:
- Jenkins, Azure DevOps
- Methodologies:
- Agile Scrum, Waterfall
- Version Control:
- Git/GitHub
- IDE's:
- IntelliJ, Eclipse, SQL Developer, Postman, VS Code
- Responsibilities in The Projects
- Contributed to system requirements analysis, creation and execution of Test Plans and Test Cases for Manual and Automation Testing
- Actively involved in Scrum Ceremonies and collaborated with the other team members to meet the Sprint Stories' requirements
- Using Selenium WebDriver with Java to automate the Smoke and Regression Suites
- Created and Automated Positive and Negative Test Scenarios to assure the quality of the Web-based application Created Cucumber BDD Framework based on Page Object Model (POM) from scratch and used for UI Testing providing Database data for verification by using JDBC
- Proficiently identified web elements based on the Test scripts using HTML and CSS Locators
- Performed automated and manual API Tests using REST Assured Libraries and Postman
- Created Test scenarios in Gherkin Language and generated Cucumber Reports with screenshots for non-technical people to easily comprehend
- Performed Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) to connect to the database source and used SQL for verification of data and validation from Oracle and MySQL
- Running Smoke and Regression Suites on CI tools
- Performed Exploratory Manual Testing on multiple browsers
- Comfortably used JIRA Xray for project management, kept track of the active sprint's user stories under a point-based system and reported the defects by creating bug tickets
- Utilized Git for version control and GitHub for the remote repository.
Languages
Turkish
Native
English
Advanced
Timeline
QA Automation Engineer
AQA - SMS Plc
05.2022 - Current
SDET
CK IT Services Limited / Shaype Bank Project, Lond
01.2021 - 01.2022
AQA - Overtech Information Technologies
07.2019 - 11.2020
Manuel Tester
APPLUASE Pennsylvania / USA, Oréal
07.2017 - 06.2019
Jet Pilot, NATO Staff Officer and Test Pilot
Eskisehir/Turkish Air Force
08.2010 - 04.2017
Flight Safety and Test Flight Course -
Turkish Air Force Flight Training School
BS - Industrial Engineering
Turkish Air Force Academy
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